Got a great question we often hear discussed today!
(Response) So often we see the phrase today, “born this way”, used as a calling card to tell us that homosexuality is not chosen, but a part of a person’s DNA at birth. A slogan the homosexual community has made very popular within our society, to promote their cause, and seeking to make their viewpoint more acceptable. But what our society and the homosexual community must come to understand, in the Lord’s eyes, the only way we must be born, is to be born again.
Most in our nation, and throughout this world, have come to believe that sexual orientation is genetic. Something people have without choice, the same as would be the color of your hair or your eyes. And most have come to believe that if people are born with a given sexual orientation, then homosexuality must be considered both normal, and morally acceptable. And as we watch our televisions and the movie screens, we see Hollywood and the media constantly put forth this view. But in looking at this view, we see two overwhelming problems.
First, billions have been spent by government and private companies to locate and identify this homosexual gene in recent years. And with each dollar spent, the reality is, no such gene has ever been found. Let me repeat that, no homosexual gene has ever been discovered. Actually, what science has discovered in these studies would surprise many, as most of these studies have shown that homosecuality is a learned behavior. Studies that have led the American Psychiatric Association, an organization that has been far from being biblically friendly, to state, “Some people believe that sexual orientation is innate and fixed; however, sexual orientation develops across a person’s lifetime.”
Second, if people are “born gay”, and all sexual orientation is a part of our genetics, then that would mean that all sexual tendencies due to orientation, must also be normal and morally accepted by all men. Think about that for a second. That would mean that polygamy must be an accepted part of our society. That the women who wants to marry her dog, or the tree in her yard, could say this is a part of her genetic makeup. It would also mean that the pedophile would have to be accepted as normal, as he could simply say he was “born this way”.
The truth is, science is showing us the wisdom that comes from God’s Word, as Scripture makes it very clear, homosexuality is a sin(Romans 1:26-28, Leviticus 18:22). A sin, that is a choice, just like all other sin(James 1:14). A sin the Word of God list right next to theft, greed, and drunkenness(1 Corinthians 6:9-10). A choice that is made within someone’s environment and culture, the same as all other sin is. A choice of sin that finds someone lured to by a sinful world(Romans 3:23). And a choice, like all sin, that separates us from the Lord, not one He placed in us.
But just because homosexuality is a sin, does not mean that a homosexual is left without hope. We serve a Lord who gave His life for all sinners, the homosexual, as well as the drunkard and the thief. In Christ, all mankind finds the only source of forgiveness, healing, comfort, and restoration, this world will ever know. And the love and mercy Christ brought to this world, reaches just as hard and far for the homosexual as it does for every other sinner. Reaching just as far, as it once reached for you and me.
Homosexuality does not call on us to accept faulty science, but shows us the wisdom and trustworthiness of His Word. Homosexuality shows us that we must reach out to those caught up in and being deceived by the sin of the homosexual lifestyle. Leading us to reach out to them with the truth, a truth filled with the compassion, wisdom, and reality of God’s Word. A truth that seeks to offer us a new nature in Christ(2 Corinthians 5:17), as He destroys the power and the hold that sin has on us(Romans 6:1-7).
The Word of God makes it very clear to us, we are all born with a sinful nature(Romans 5:12). Teaching us, that being born a sinner, can never make sin right. And showing us, whether we are born a thief, a drunkard, a liar, an addict, or a homosexual, we must be born again. Because being born again, is the only way, we can truly be born.
